PATNA: After decades of being the face of RJD, patriarch Lalu Prasad is ceding political space to his son Tejashwi Yadav as INDIA bloc's Bihar chief ministerial candidate takes centre stage in a poll campaign designed to recast the party's image around the heir. Lalu, still the RJD president, doesn't feature in any of the poll posters projecting Tejashwi as Bihar's "nayak" and promising momentous changes if he is elected CM. The ailing former CM and Union minister hasn't been seen in public either, although his wife Rabri Devi, also a former CM, did travel to Raghopur recently. So, is Lalu's health the only reason he isn't part of the campaign or has one of Bihar's most influential political figures over several decades outlived his utility? RJD sources said that Lalu receding into

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